Green Mountains And Me Lyrics - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away - Slaid Cleaves

You're on the other side of the world tonight 

But under the same cold stars 

And tonight I'll dream you right back home 

To this little life of ours 

We'll walk hand in hand through fields of green 

Just like we did last year 

But it's so hard to wake up every day 

And watch as your dreams disappear 

It's quiet here, your little boy's asleep 

He looks more like you every day 

Won't you come back, come back my darlin' 

Each night I pray on bended knee 

Won't you come back to the Green Mountains and me 

I see a car winding up the driveway 

Up to your parents' place 

The old man looks up from his raking 

As the color drains from your mama's face 

Cryin' softly by the window now 

While your daddy shakes the soldiers hands 

Their taillights disappear into the woods below 

He's frozen in the doorway where he stands 

In the twilight, in the silent snow 

I hear you singing in my ear 

Won't you come back . . . 

The seasons come and the seasons go 

We live from day to day 

And I lose a little bit of myself 

With each tear I wipe away 

People on the street used to stop and chat 

Now they look down and walk on by 

Won't you come back . . .